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We’ve funded a vital service with a donation to an anti-poverty charity

We’re thrilled to have donated £1000 to Northampton Hope Centre to fund its Hand-Up service for four days, helping to support those in poverty during the pandemic.

Hope has been serving the Northampton community for 46 years, and focuses on tackling poverty, homelessness and unemployment, especially following the impact of Coronavirus. As well as giving practical support, they offer a variety of services to those suffering with homelessness, isolation, addictions, mental health and more, to enable them to take back control of their own lives.

The Hand-Up service supports up to 35 homeless people each day, offering 140 hot meals, showers, welfare packs, food parcels and more. The service also provides addiction and budgeting workshops, tenancy sustainment and access to its Learning 4 Living services, all with an aim to teach life skills and help people reintegrate back into society, hopefully leading to work experience, a job or a place to live.

Alongside people living on the streets, the service is available to those in insecure housing, sofa surfing and sleeping on a friend’s floor.

Noo Jarvill, Corporate Engagement Manager at Hope, said: “The Hope Centre is very grateful indeed to Mulberry Homes – without the generosity of local companies like Mulberry, we would be unable to give support to the homeless and disadvantaged in Northampton.

“This fantastic donation will help us continue our work in supporting those who access our Hand-Up service – where we offer everything from hot food and showers, to healthcare advice and services, mental health and addiction support, advocacy for housing assessments and much more. Our Hand-Up service is vital for getting people on a pathway which enables them to reintegrate back into society. From here, we are then able to offer more support via our Learning 4 Living service, which offers mental health interventions, workshops in employability skills and tenancy sustainment, and training to get back into work. Our social enterprises play a massive role at this stage as they enable us to also offer work experience in several different areas; outdoors at our gardening project, in the warehouse at our Foodclub project or in retail at our charity shop.

“Our aim is simple, to give a hand up to those who need it and support those in poverty in Northampton; and we couldn’t do that without the generosity of the local business community. Our huge thanks to Mulberry Homes for seeing a need and leading the way in helping.”

Kerry Jones, Sales Director at Mulberry Homes, said: “We’re very proud to be supporting Hope and the vital work they do, and we’re thrilled that our donation will fund the Hand-Up service for four days. It’s a fantastic and invaluable scheme, helping individuals get their lives back on track and providing necessities for those who need it most.”

The donation comes as part of our 10-year anniversary campaign, in which we have committed to donating a total of £10,000 to charities and organisations local to our developments throughout 2021, with Hope operating nearby to our Meadows View Fields development in Moulton.

For more information on Hope, visit https://northamptonhopecentre.org.uk/.